Has anyone had a problem with the factory installed mirror? When we bought the boat, there was no mirror. There wewre solder marks on the tower where the mirror shuold have been, and a very sharp edge right there also. (Also it turned out the tower was bent - it looked like it had been damaged by a low-bridge situation.) The dealer made good on it all for us by replacing the tower. The new tower had the mirror attached.
After I took the boat back for them to fix our starting problem (see other long post about THAT one), the boat was missing the mirror. We went around and around with them on this one. How did they know that we brought the boat in with a mirror? They were willing to make good on the missing mirror. They said that the mirror was not replaceable without purcchasing an entire new tower! They gave us about $40 off of the service we had done - the whole thing still chaps my hide, but I'm tired of yelling at them. We ended up getting a new mirror and our dad engineered an awesome bracket so we wouldn;t need to pay $350 or more for the brackets in the catalogs.
Anyway, my question is: has anyone else had a problem with the mirror disapearing? Either someone ripped it off (literally) while at the dealer (bracket and all), or it fell off on the road somewhere. My guess is that it was torn off by a person (I'm not saying associated to the dealer - just someone who saw the boat in their unsecure lot at some point) - if it fell off while on the freeway, it probably would have landed in the boat.
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Challenger X mirror and tower
19 April 2006 - 02:58 PM
Engine 'quit' on us
23 August 2005 - 11:25 PM
HI. We just bought a new 2004 Challenger X from the dealer. We took it to the Colorado River, and on its 3rd day and 6.3 hours (following break-in instructions - no high RPM's, varying speeds, etc.), we were towing an 8-year old on a kneeboard when the boat stopped. It was as though someone had pulled out the key. We checked the oil and gas (more than 1/2 tank of gas, more than 2/3 oil). From what we could tell, any instruments running through the ignition switch were dead. No power to the starter, when we turned on the key the warning buzzer did NOT sound, and the fuel gauge dit NOT read anything - sure give-aways of no power through the ignition switch. The lanyard was in correctly, and we reseated it several times for good measure.
The blower, lights, horn, radio, etc worked just fine, but none of those go through the ignition switch. We had no diagram of the wiring for the ignition switch, and the back of the switch is epoxied so you cannot test wires without stripping them anyway. We found fuses behind the main shutoff in the engine compartment. They were all good; we swapped them around for good measures; still no power. After a few hours we managed to get back upriver with a lot of help from kind strangers, tried it in our garage at the river with no success. We towed it back home to Los Angeles. Before we took it to the dealer, we tried it again; no success.
When we called the dealer a few days later, they said it ran fine for them. They claim they did not need to do anything. Unfortunately, the service provider abbreviated our lengthy discussion into a half-sentence of "no power to engine" on the service request, so the techs never did much checking on our electrical system. They interpreted the ticket to mean the engine wasn't performing well, not that it had no spark.
Since the dealer didn't understand the original problem, and it started working miraculously without any fuse replacements, wire tightening, etc., and since they never checked for a bad connection in some hard-to-reach user accessible area, we're concerned it will occur again. (There's nothing like getting stuck downriver in 110 degree heat with 3 kids under 9... that's why we got the new boat.)
My questions are:
Has anyone experienced something like this?
Does anyone have a wiring schematic of the color coding of the ignition switch?
The blower, lights, horn, radio, etc worked just fine, but none of those go through the ignition switch. We had no diagram of the wiring for the ignition switch, and the back of the switch is epoxied so you cannot test wires without stripping them anyway. We found fuses behind the main shutoff in the engine compartment. They were all good; we swapped them around for good measures; still no power. After a few hours we managed to get back upriver with a lot of help from kind strangers, tried it in our garage at the river with no success. We towed it back home to Los Angeles. Before we took it to the dealer, we tried it again; no success.
When we called the dealer a few days later, they said it ran fine for them. They claim they did not need to do anything. Unfortunately, the service provider abbreviated our lengthy discussion into a half-sentence of "no power to engine" on the service request, so the techs never did much checking on our electrical system. They interpreted the ticket to mean the engine wasn't performing well, not that it had no spark.
Since the dealer didn't understand the original problem, and it started working miraculously without any fuse replacements, wire tightening, etc., and since they never checked for a bad connection in some hard-to-reach user accessible area, we're concerned it will occur again. (There's nothing like getting stuck downriver in 110 degree heat with 3 kids under 9... that's why we got the new boat.)
My questions are:
Has anyone experienced something like this?
Does anyone have a wiring schematic of the color coding of the ignition switch?
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